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Jordan Barry Howard, 30, was hit and killed in a head-on collision by a truck that authorities said was involved in a chase.

To read more on the crash, click here. | To see family pictures of the Howard family, click here.

Amber said the day of the wreck, she asked Jordan to stay home.

“I fed her (the couple's daughter), and went back into the bedroom to wake him up and I laid on his chest and asked him to stay home that day. He told me he wished he could. But it didn't matter if he was sick, if he could crawl to work he was going to. He wanted to provide for us, and he did. He brushed the hair out of my face and kissed me goodbye and kissed her goodbye and 15 minutes later our world changed.”

Amber said she and Jordan had been together seven years and married for three.

She said it’s hard to think she is a widow at age 27 and all she can do is take one day at a time.

“Right now it's hard, it's very hard … being a young widow. It's hard to say. Things seem to go one day at a time. I wake up, I pray and I just go with the motions and I try to keep myself busy.”

Amber said the couple’s daughter, 4-month-old Aubree, gives her strength.

“God wanted him to be with Him, so his work here was done, and God has built in me this incredible strength, I don't know where it comes from. Aubree is my daily inspiration, motivation, my reason for living. She has been my rock.”

Amber also talked about how grateful she is for the community support she has gotten.

"I just want them to know my gratitude. I just want them to know how thankfully Aubree and I are...And my family for all of the support and their thoughts and prayers. They mean the world to us.

Jordan was an eight-year veteran firefighter. He was a 2003 graduate of Travelers Rest High School and the South Carolina State Fire Academy. Jordan was buried in the family cemetery near his home in Marietta.

Memorials can be made to The Jordan Howard Memorial Fund at any branch of The Bank of Travelers Rest and/or The North Greenville Fire Department, 923 Tigerville Road, Travelers Rest, South Carolina, 29690.